PERNICIOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.

2.
a.

Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.


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